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Phillips Academy (Andover)
Phillips Academy, commonly known as Andover, was founded in 1778 by Samuel Phillips Jr., making it one of the oldest incorporated schools in the United States, predating even the country's own founding as an independent nation by a matter of months. The school's history includes a notably early commitment to expanding access, and its alumni include two U.S. presidents from the same family, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, alongside numerous other prominent figures across politics, business, and the arts. Andover's extensive campus includes its own archaeological museum, art museum, and observatory, reflecting an unusually resource-rich institutional history built up over nearly two and a half centuries of continuous operation and alumni philanthropy. Phillips Academy's combination of its status as one of the nation's oldest schools and its multi-generational presidential and prominent alumni lineage has made it one of the most historically significant boarding schools in the country.
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Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy was founded in 1781 by John Phillips, whose brother Samuel had founded Phillips Academy Andover just three years earlier, making the two schools sibling institutions with a friendly rivalry that has persisted for over two centuries. The school is closely identified with the "Harkness method," a discussion-based teaching approach built around oval tables that seat around a dozen students and a teacher as equals, funded by a 1930 gift from oil magnate Edward Harkness specifically to support this style of instruction rather than traditional lecture-based teaching. Exeter's notable alumni span an unusually wide range of fields, including author Dan Brown, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg (who briefly attended before transferring), and numerous U.S. senators and Pulitzer Prize winners, reflecting the school's long-standing reputation as a pipeline to elite universities and prominent careers. Phillips Exeter Academy's combination of its historic Harkness discussion-based teaching method and its centuries-long track record producing prominent alumni has made it one of the most academically respected boarding schools in the country.
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